\"2 u 1\", Contemporary Art Catalogue Elvis Berton & Rolf Laven

Marija Ivetic: Even though the title of this exhibition 2 u 1 sounds like a commercial slogan, it was not chosen to implicate the content code of the artworks presented. Rather than that, it is an association of two separate opuses of two authors, Elvis Berton and Rolf Laven. It especially emphasizes their co-authorship in the realization of paintings whose morphogenesis consists of two substantially mended artistic reasoning.Fifteen years ago Elvis Berton held his first solo exhibition in Pazin. The period that followed was fruitful in many determinants important for his artistic dignity: maturation of his artistic expression, rich production, numerous awards and prizes, an array of solo exhibitions, participations in group exhibitions and artistic colonies in Croatia and abroad. As a part of his third solo presentation in Pazin, Berton is representing sculptures from his two cycles – White Cypresses and Seven Years of Hunger, paintings from the cycles Before the Rain, Remembering Tourves and Birds as well as mutual artistic masterpieces realized in cooperation with Rolf Laven.